# porca
## Galician
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin porca (“sow”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɔɾkɐ]

#### Noun

porca f (plural porcas)
* sow
** 1291, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo. Transcrición íntegra dos documentos, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 78:cen carros de pan entre trigo et centeo et vi armentios et iiii bois et ii uacas et La roxellos entre cabras et ouellas et oyto fanegas de ligoyma entre fuas et eruellas et ii ferrados de noses et vii anssaras et dos capoos et v galinas et ii porcas et iiii trens de nauios que tinna en pinor por vi centos mor.a hundred carts of grain, wheat and rye; and 6 cattle, 4 oxen and 2 cows; and 50 kids, sheep and goats; and eight bushels of legume, beans and peas; and two iron bushels of nuts; and 7 geese, and two capons and 5 hens and 2 sows; and 4 tackles of ships that he had in pawn for 600 mor.
* (figurative) an untidy, unclean woman
* a swelling
** 1409, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 75:son chamadas llandooas o scrofullas que dizen porcasthey are named tonsils or scrofulas that they call porcas

##### Derived terms

* porcalla

#### Adjective

porca
* feminine singular of porco

### Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese porca, probably from Latin porca (“ridge”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɔɾkɐ]

#### Noun

porca f (plural porcas)
* nut (for a bolt)
* a children's traditional game, loosely related to golf, whose goal is a hole in the ground
* earth left undisturbed after digging

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “porca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “porca”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “porca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “porca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “porca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔr.ka/
* Rhymes: -ɔrka
* Hyphenation: pòr‧ca

### Etymology 1

From Latin porca (“balk”), from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱeh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”).

#### Noun

porca f (plural porche)
* the ridge between two furrows; balk
    Synonym: (Northern Italy) prosa

### Etymology 2

From Latin porca (“sow”).

#### Noun

porca f (plural porche)
* sow
    Synonyms: scrofa, troia, maiala
* (figurative, vulgar, derogatory) a lascivious or lewd woman

##### Related terms

* porco

#### Adjective

porca
* feminine singular of porco

##### Derived terms

* porca puttana

### References

* ↑ porco in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* -carpo, capro, carpo, carpo-, copra, parco, parcò

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpor.ka/, [ˈpɔrkä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpor.ka/, [ˈpɔrkä]

### Etymology 1

Feminine of porcus.

#### Noun

porca f (genitive porcae); first declension
* sow (female pig)

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

##### Synonyms

* (female pig): scrōfa
* (female or male pig): sūs

##### Related terms

* (male pig): porcus

##### Descendants

* Aromanian: poarcã
* Catalan: porca
* Galician: porca
* Italian: porca
* Megleno-Romanian: poarcă
* Mirandese: puorca
* Neapolitan: puorca
* Occitan: pòrca
* Portuguese: porca
* Romanian: poarcă
* Sicilian: porca
* Spanish: puerca

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *pr̥ḱeh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare English furrow. Doublet of riga.

#### Noun

porca f (genitive porcae); first declension
* (agriculture) the ridge between two furrows; a balk; a lynchet

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

##### Descendants

* Galician: porca
* Italian: porca
* Romanian: porcoi
* Old Spanish: puerca
** Spanish: aporcar
* Portuguese: alporquia

### References

* “porca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “porca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* porca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* porca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “porca”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɔʁ.kɐ/ [ˈpɔh.kɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɔʁ.kɐ/ [ˈpɔh.kɐ]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /ˈpɔɾ.kɐ/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /ˈpɔʁ.kɐ/ [ˈpɔχ.kɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɔɻ.ka/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpɔɾ.kɐ/
* Hyphenation: por‧ca

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese porca, from Latin porca (“sow”), feminine of porcus (“pig”), from Proto-Indo-European *porḱ- (“young swine, young pig”).

#### Noun

porca f (plural porcas)
* sow; female equivalent of porco
* (Portugal) slut (promiscuous woman)

##### Derived terms

* porca-marinha
* porca-sara

##### Related terms

* porcaria
* porco

### Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese porca, probably from Latin porca (“ridge”).

#### Noun

porca f (plural porcas)
* nut (that fits on a bolt)
    Synonym: rosca
    Coordinate term: parafuso

## Spanish
### Noun

porca f (plural porcas)
* female equivalent of porco